Depressive symptoms in response to COVID-19 and lockdown: a cross-sectional study on the Italian population.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown orders adopted to prevent the spread of the disease had a huge impact on a personal, social, and economic level for the world population. In Europe, Italy was one of the frontrunner countries dealing with an emergency that significantly affected people's lives. Previous research on the psychological impact of the pandemic revealed an increase in anxiety, depression, and feelings of distress; however, these studies were conducted on non-representative samples of the population reached through social media channels, a method that is likely to lead to many forms of statistical and methodological bias. For the first time to our knowledge, we assessed the psychological impact of COVID-19 on 6700 Italian individuals, representative of the Italian population

SUBMITTER: Delmastro M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7775443 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature